Meanings
plural chinning bars
- A bar used for doing chin-ups or pull-ups (exercises in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar)
He had lost one of the oars. The other was pulled tight against him like a chinning bar.
1966, Cynthia Ozick, Trust, New York: The New American Library, Part 4, Chapter 20, p. 5451 more example
Robert did his exercises, standing in the yard where she could see him. Indian clubs—a chinning bar and shadow boxing.
1977, Timothy Findley, The Wars, New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, published 1978, Prologue, p. 18Synonyms: chin-up bar, chinup bar
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA bar used for doing chin-ups or pull-ups (exercises in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar)
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